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Chapter 14-15-No vocab on 16

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Concepts   General term referring to any product of conception  
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Infanticide   A type of homicide consisting of killing the newborn  
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Mitosis   The process by which the cell splits into two new cells, each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell.  
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Ovum   The female germ cell  
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Quickening   The first perceptible movement of the fetus in the uterus  
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Spermatozoon   The male germ cell  
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Therapeutic Abortion   Abortion performed to preserve the life of health of the mother  
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Zygote   The fertilized ovum; the cell produced by the union of gametes  
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Code Red   Medical slang indicating a life-or-death emergency  
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Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care   Sometimes called medical proxy; the legal right to act on another s behalf in making health care decisions  
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Euthanasia   From the Greek for "Good death", willfully causing or allowing death to keep a person with incurable disease from suffering, more commonly used today to express active euthanasia  
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Living Will   Legal document, voluntarily made by an adult, stating what treatment and procedures that person wants done in the event of a terminal illness, especially when the person is comatose or incompetent  
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Patient Self-Determination Act   Federal law requiring institutions giving medical care to inform client of their option to use advance directives such as living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care  
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Physician's Directive   A state's response to the living will; called the Natural Death Act  
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